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Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is generally the time when the monsoon develops in India. The monsoon provides the major rain that allows crops to grow in that country, and the failure of the monsoon causes immense suffering, crop damage and famine in the area. Even though you might think that “monsoon” is just a…
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Today marks the 18th birthday of the Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network, more frequently known as CoCoRaHS. Nolan Doesken, the founder of the network, has some interesting information on how the network got started in his most recent newsletter, which you can read here. I have been a CoCoRaHS observer in Clarke County,…
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A new website which collects information on wildfire in the Southeast is now available at https://southernwildfire.net/. This website collects information on wildfire research geared towards Southeastern wildfires as well as shares success stories on dealing with forest fires. It includes information on SouthWRAP, the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment online mapping tool, an evaluation tool for assessing your…
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For those of you wondering how to know when to expect high levels of heat stress on livestock, the USDA has a great web site which contains daily heat stress maps for the US for up to a week ahead. Today’s forecast for Monday June 13 shows high levels of heat in a large area of…
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NOAA released their latest summary for May, spring (March-May) and year to date for the US today. You can see the summary at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/201605. The summary shows that for May, the country as a whole was fairly close to the long-term average, although some regions were colder or warmer than average, particularly the Pacific Northwest.…
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As the El Niño continues to weaken, colder than normal water is starting to emerge in the eastern Pacific Ocean where unusually warm water previously resided. This is a sign that the El Niño will soon be gone, although the process for declaring it ended usually takes several months to make sure that the event…
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Even though the extensive forest fires that have been occurring in Fort McMurray, Alberta, seem far away, they have caused impacts here in the Southeast. Here are some stories discussing the links between the fires and climate as well as implications for the Southeast. NASA’ s Earth Observatory posted a striking image of the smoke…